Soulages Painting Quotes & Sayings

At 16, I decided to do something brave: I went on a prehistoric dig. In fact, I've had my name in a museum since I was 18 years old, not for my painting but for the prehistoric objects I found. That's how I started thinking about art. — Pierre Soulages

Your possibilities are unlimited, but it all begins with the deliberate choice to think differently. — Chris Guillebeau

What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense. You will be able to smile at how you overcome the tears of pain. — Stephen Richards

I always liked paintings to be walls rather than windows. When we see a painting on a wall, it's a window, so I often put my paintings in the middle of the space to make a wall. — Pierre Soulages

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting. — Pierre Soulages

Get lost in the beauty and tranquility of nature to find your true self again and again. — Debasish Mridha

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies. — Pierre Soulages

I get a lot of inspiration from Japanese manga, especially shoujo which tends to have elaborate and fantastical adventure plots. — Cassandra Clare

No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent. — Susan B. Anthony

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose of a painting and of art in general. — Pierre Soulages

Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists. — Robert Mugabe

Painting isn't just pretty or pleasant; it is something that helps you to stand alone and face yourself. — Pierre Soulages

Teenagers are people too! — Joyce Meyer

Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life. — Leonard Ravenhill

If painting doesn't offer a way to dream and create emotions, then it's not worth it. — Pierre Soulages

Painting allows us to live in a more interesting way than we live our everyday lives. — Pierre Soulages

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist. — Pierre Soulages

A window looks outside, but a painting should do the opposite - it should look inside of us. When I put them in the middle of the room, I attach the paintings at the top to the ceiling and on the bottom to the floor. I prefer this to just hanging them from the ceiling because it creates a place in a space, like a wall. — Pierre Soulages

I never want to stop painting. I'm 94 now. What's my secret? I just keep thinking about the painting I'm going to do tomorrow. — Pierre Soulages

Were you even aware that one could rent clothes, Vasile? Does it not seem a bit ... cringe inducing? — Beth Fantaskey